Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!

Namaste!

Gurudev Swami Sivananda
by Sri Swami Krishnananda

We bring to our memories today the advent of a great soul which incarnated upon this Earth many, many years back. We bring to our memories the birth into this Earth-plane of the great Master, Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj.

Usually such indefinable individuals are called supermen, or if we would like to be a little more philosophical, super-individuals. An extended form of an individual person—that is the meaning of super-individuality. In what way does he extend beyond the dimension of his visible personality? The extension of the dimension of a person is not actually the extension of the physical body, because the body is not the person. It is the mind, or the consciousness, that animates the body. We have to carefully keep in our mind the point that a person is not the body. The force that is exerted by a person, the knowledge and the capacity to execute action of any kind, is not seen in the five-element-based physical body. It is in the mind of that person. What the person thinks is itself the person; otherwise, everybody looks alike. Even Sri Rama and Sri Krishna looked like any other human being, but they were intensely super-individual; they extended beyond themselves. What is it that is extending beyond itself? It is that which is the person.

Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj never travelled abroad, but there is no country in the world that does not know his name. How did he spread himself around the globe of the Earth without seeing anybody outside India? Living in a little cave-like room on the bank of the Ganga, with no ventilation even, and dark inside—what is the principle working through him that made him so famous even today? As time passes, his name captures more and more people. The books that he has written are a magazine of magnetism. The writing of Sri Swami Sivanandaji is the manifestation of a soul force. He was entirely present in every word that he wrote. The author should be immersed in the words that he speaks or writes; otherwise, the book will not cut ice.

Whenever you think, you must be there wholly in your thought. It is not that you think something and at the same time think twenty other things; then that thought will not have any power. When you think a thing, you think only that, and not another thing. This is the principle not only of spiritual growth, but also of even the maintenance of good health in the body. The dissipated action of the mind distracted in various directions does not permit its concentration on anything. Even when you eat your food, you cannot think that you are eating food. The mind is in the railway station if you have to catch the train after half an hour. A person who is wanting to catch the train after half an hour need not eat food. It is better to go. Else, the stomach cannot digest what is eaten. The modern malady is in the haste with which things are being done. Everything is rapid; it must be done now, and then another thing must be done. Go on doing. But you are not in anything that you are doing; you are outside it. This kind of action, where you are not present, is called binding action. Action in which you are wholly present is liberating action. But any one of us can close our eyes for a few minutes and think deeply whether we are wholly present in anything in this world. We will find, to our dismay, that we are not wholly present in anything. Therefore, there is failure in whatever one touches.

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September 8th is the 133^rd Birthday Anniversary of Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj.

 

Yours in the service of Gurudev,

Pannirselvam

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BOOK SYNOPSIS

Swami Sivananda, Our Loving Awakener
by Swami Chidananda

These are a number of talks and messages on Gurudev Swami Sivananda by Swami Chidananda. The first twelve were given during Gurudev's lifetime and the following 13 after his Mahasamadhi.

They show Swami Chidananda's exemplary, totally dedicated discipleship during 65 years and his untiring zeal and conviction of spreading his Master's teachings and the message of Divine Life during his Presidency of 45 years. Whatever he elaborates on and propagates in his discourses, that Swamiji himself was the best example of.

We are sure that all who read this book will be inspired to follow more ardently in Gurudev's and Swami Chidananda's footsteps and lead the Divine Life to the best of their abilities.

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"The glorious culture of Bharatavarsha has taught us to deify everything. The Srutis repeatedly proclaim this eternal truth: ‘Isavasyam idam sarvam!’ -- ‘Sarvam khalvidam Brahma!’ This is the glorious discovery of our ancients, this unique conception of seeing God in everything, in the speck of dust, in the insect, in the sky, in everything. We particularly adore anything wherein Divinity is especially manifest, wherein there is an exceptionally dense manifestation of any aspect of Divinity. The Vibhuti Yoga of Lord Krishna enumerates these manifestations in detail. The Lord is also manifest in an exceptionally dense form in the Guru, in the Spiritual Preceptor who enlightens the disciple. That is why we are asked to worship the Guru as visible God. In Swami Sivananda, we have a universal Guru, a person who deserves to be worshipped by the entire universe.". – Swami Chidananda

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